Re: (yet) more buffer paranoia - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: (yet) more buffer paranoia
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Msg-id 200208240439.g7O4dQV25287@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: (yet) more buffer paranoia  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I guess the question is where there are tons more.  If not, I think it
would be wise to just clean it up so any future uses will look out of
place.  Can someone check on this?

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> > This patches replaces a few more usages of strcpy() and sprintf() when
> > copying into a fixed-size buffer (in this case, a buffer of
> > NAMEDATALEN bytes). AFAICT nothing to worry about here, but worth
> > fixing anyway...
>
> I'm not that eager to replace every single sprintf with snprintf.
> Most of these are obviously safe and do not need the clutter and
> extra cycles...
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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